K Street

I visited a couple of K Street associations today. DC is full of industry or professional associations. They set up in DC for lobby on behalf of their members. K Street NW seems to be the focal point for most of them and the office towers are full of them. Walk down the hall of any of these buildings and you'll see signs on doors with names like "National Association of Tire Rotating Professionals", "American Federation of Hangnail Sufferers", etc. A lot of people here make a nice living starting new associations but someday we will have used up all possible permutations and there won't be anything or anybody left unrepresented in DC.

It's important, when starting an association, to get a good acronym. Here's one I saw today: FARB